Would you be so kind.

Hello.

Would you be so kind as to comment on my poems, as i need lots of helpful criticism upon my work.

Much to be owed if you decide to comment- thank you all so much.

Sam the man Leslie.

please link to said poems. thank you.

Please start with the ones in 'my blog'

groovy.

so, i gave these a first pass. the first is, to my mind, the best, as i think it's more accessible than the others.

now, of poetry, one can, of course, just write for one's self. poetry can, after all, be very cathartic. it doesn't have to mean anything to anyone else. and i'm undoubtedly guilty of this. if someone happens to like a poem that i wrote, it isn't that i intended that they should. and i think your poems fit that mould rather well.

what i will say is that if you do intend to write for others, it is necessary to consider whether your allusions have any common currency. now, this is tricky. good poetry says things that are sort of obvious in a rather unobvious way. this is where a flare for originality gives a poem a sense of creativity.

the other thing that poetry does is to allow us to reach emotional depths, and heights, that mere description would deny. poetry is a sort of rapture. it embraces the soul. as such, i will say this: it's all well and good plunging the depths but don't forget to reach for the heights too.